Arabic translation of Torah,here at Temanim.org. This is a beautiful PDF, with the Chumash text, Rashi, Onkelos, and Rav Saadia's Tafsir. All of these have nikkud, which is a very nice feature. It also designates the Temani and standard aliyah breaks, and two commentaries, Shemen HaMor and Chelek HaDikduk, on the kriyah, trup, nikkud, and dikduk, on the basis of Yemenite manuscripts, which would be worthwhile even absent the other features. Quite excellent, overall.

The same Arabic translation, the Tafsir,here at Google books. No nikkud, Chumash text, Rashi, or Onkelos. But there is a brief supercommentary by Yosef Direnburg at the bottom of each page.

Collected commentary of Saadia Gaon on Torah, selected from the writings of various Rishonim and from his commentaries on other works.

Torat Hatur -- when the Tur (in his halachic work) cites pesukim from this parasha. Not very helpful, IMHO. Though the supercommentary on the Tur on the bottom is nice.

Rabbenu Ephraim-- (France, 12th and 13th century) -- see Jewish Encyclopedia entry -- "He was the author of "Perush 'al ha-Torah," which consists chiefly of gemaṭria and "noṭariḳon." He largely followed Eleazar of Worms."

R' Yosef Bechor Shor(France, 12th century). See Wikipedia entry. Student of Rabbenu Tam. "Even more than Rashi, to whose exegetical school he belonged, he confined himself to literal interpretations (peshat). Anticipating later Biblical criticism, he assumed the presence of duplicate narratives in the Bible, and he strove to give rational explanations to the miraculous stories."

Meiri-- (Catalan, 1249 – 1310) -- see Wikipedia entry. This is a collected commentary, culled from his other works.

Malbim - Eretz Chemda -- a running commentary on the parsha, based on the Midrash -- only for Matos

Malbim - haTorah veHamitzvah -- "analytical and innovative commentary on the Pentateuch and the midrash halakha (Warsaw, 1874–80), including the linguistic guide Ayelet ha-Shachar on differences between similar terms in Hebrew"

HaKsav veHakabbalah -- R. Ya'akov Zvi Mecklenburg (1785-1865)-- המפרש את המקראות על דרך הפשט לאחדם עם התורה שבעל פה. See On the Main Line -- "His work is normally grouped with 19th century Jewish exegete Malbim, although similar in kind (eg, for its devotion to uniting the rabbinic interpretation with the pshat on grammatical and critical, rather than homiletical grounds) R. Mecklenburg's found more use for contemporary quasi-non-traditional sources than Malbim (although this factoid should not be blown out of proportion). For example, Ha-qetav We-ha-qabbalah cites Julius Fürst and the Biurists, while Malbim will not cite contemporary maskilim and only occasionally cites someone like Philo (in his commentary) or Shadal (in Ya'ir Or, on Hebrew synonyms)."

Torah Temimah(and in English) - Rabbi Baruch HaLevi Epstein (Lithuania, 1860-1941) -- see Wikipedia entry -- "a commentary on the Torah and the Five Megillot citing all quotes of a particular verse in the Oral Torah (Talmud or Midrash), and giving textual explanations."

Yalkut Yehuda(R' Yehuda Leib Ginsberg, Russia, Denver, 1885-1946) -- Wikipedia -- "He is most notable for his commentary on various parts of the Torah and Rabbinic Writings which deal mostly with the ethical teachings found within them."

The following meforshim at JNUL. I've discovered that if you click on the icon to rotate sideways, change to only black and white, select only the portion which is text, it is eminently readable on paper.

Ateres Rashi + Laazei Rashi -- as a running supercommentary of Rashi, inserted in between Rashi's words. With analysis and Latin character rendition of each Old French word (laaz) when it appears in Rashi.

Perushim Ketzarim - basically, a yalkut of interesting statements on each pasuk by midrashim, Rishonim and Acharonim, arranged as Q & A, sometimes forming a sugya. Found at the end of each parasha, in the same sefer as above.

Ateres HaMikra -- the same approach as Perushim Ketzarim, with different material , in a separate work.

Lechem veSimlah, containing Lechem Abirim, which is based on R' Eliyahu Bachur dictionary of Targum called Meturgeman and Shadal's Ohev Ger, discussing different nuschaot of Onkelos; and Simlas Ger, discussing the meanings of Onkelos's choice of translation, as he received from his Tannaitic teachers.

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parshablog is published by (rabbi) josh waxman (joshwaxman [at] yahoo [dot] com), a grad student in Revel, a grad student in a Phd program in computer science at CUNY. i recently received semicha from RIETS. this blog is devoted to parsha as well as whatever it is i am currently learning.